Peter Winkler: Scholarly Work

PUBLICATIONS

 

“Randy Newman’s Americana”, in Middleton, Richard, ed. Reading Pop : Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music , p. 27-57 (Oxford University Press, 2000)  (originally published in Popular Music Vol. 7 No. 1, Fall 1988, pp. 1-26

 

“Writing Ghost Notes: The Poetics and Politics of Transcription” in Schwartz, David, and Anahid Kassabian, ed., “Keeping Scoreâ€? Music, Disciplinarity, Culture  (University Press of Virginia Press,1997), p. 169-203

 

“In Search of Yaa Amponsah” in Straw, Will, et al., ed., Popular Music - Style and Identity (Montreal, Centre for Research on Canadian Cultral Industries and Institutions, 1995)

 

Editor, Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch, 1992-95 (Vol. 5, 6, 7)

 

Editor, Review of Popular Music (RPM) , the Newsletter for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music  (IASPM), 1984-1989 (Issues #4-14)

 

“Pop Music’s Middle Years”, Music Educator’s Journal, Vol. 66 No. 4, December 1979

 

“Toward a Theory of Popular Harmony”, In Theory Only, Vol. 4 No. 2, June 1978

 

 

PAPERS PRESENTED (National and International meetings)

 “Tasting the ‘Spanish Tinge’�  presented at the first hemispheric meeting, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Havana, Cuba, October 1994

 “Blackface Minstrelsy Past and Present: The Case of Elvis Presley�, presented at  the 7th national        meeting, IASPM/USA, Denton, Tx. Oct. 1992

“Writing Ghost Notes: The Politics of Transcription”, presented at 6th National Meeting,             IASPM/USA, Chicago, Ill. Oct. 1991

“In Seach of Yaa Amponsah“, presented at 5th National Meeting, IASPM/USA, New Orleans,      La., April 1990  Also presented at the conference in honor of Charles Hamm, Warm        Springs, Virginia, June 1992, and the 5th International Meeting, IASPM, Stockton, Calif.,        July 1993.

“Learning from Popular Music” 32nd annual meeting, College Music Society, St. Louis, Mo.          October 1989

“Ragtime: Echoes of Africa?” 4th International Conference on Popular Music Studies (IASPM),   Accra, Ghana, August 1987

“Wild Boys/Girls’ Fun: Structure and Meaning in Two Rock Videos”

            3rd International Conference on Popular Music Studies (IASPM), Montreal, Canada, July 1985.  Also presented at 3rd National Meeting, IASPM/USA, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 1987

“Randy Newman’s Americana” 2nd National Meeting, IASPM/USA, Las Vegas, Nev., May        1984

“The Harmonic Language of Rock” Keele University/Sonneck Society Conference on British-American Musical Interactions, Keele, Staffs., U.K. July 1983  

“Pop and Jazz Harmony Since the 1960’s”  45th Annual Meeting, American Musicological Society, New York, N.Y., November 1979

“The Roots of Passion Flower“, 1st National Meeting, Society for Music Theory, Minneapolis, Minn., October 1978

“Toward a Theory of Popular Harmony”  42nd Annual Meeting, American Musicological Society, Washington D.C., November 1976

“Theory and Popular Styles” 16th Annual Meeting, College Music Society, Atlanta, Ga., January             1974